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Pre-Deployment Planning
We are engineers. Towns, agencies, and operating commands bring us in when a major technology decision is on the table and the analysis can't be left to the vendor.
Building electrification, fleet conversions, and large infrastructure transitions carry consequences that extend 20 to 30 years past the day they're signed. The hardest problem at that stage isn't technical. It's the absence of an analysis that isn't tied to selling a specific piece of equipment.
We do the engineering analysis the decision requires. Thermal, electrical, and cost behavior modeled over a defined horizon. Assumptions in the vendor's proposal stress-tested against operating reality. Implications quantified — capital flows, emissions, utility exposure, operational risk — in terms the people approving the spend can defend.
The deliverable is a decision brief you own and can defend — not a recommendation to buy a specific product, but a documented basis for committing capital on terms you set. Typical scope: lifecycle cost modeling over a defined horizon, scenario comparison against business-as-usual and alternatives, capital sequencing that reflects how budgets actually move, utility baseline and cost projection, emissions modeling where the project requires it, and an executive summary structured for the board that has to approve the spend.
How we work
- Fixed-scope engagement
- 4 to 6 week delivery
- Scope defined at intake
Case Study — Town of Chelmsford, MA
The Chelmsford Public School Building Electrification (PSB-E) Study analyzed nine public school facilities totaling 825,048 square feet, built between 1935 and 2006, across a 28-year lifecycle horizon. The Town needed a defensible basis for a capital decision on deep energy retrofits and full building electrification — a decision the select board and school committee would have to stand behind through multiple budget cycles.
The study produced the lifecycle cost framework the Town used to evaluate the $47M electrified capital pathway against a business-as-usual baseline. Each path was accounted in full: capital flows, utility costs, maintenance, emissions trajectory, and the assumptions behind every number. Contracted, delivered, and publicly available.